Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at the School of Medicine, has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine. Gordon is being honored for his discovery linking nutritional health to the inner workings of the tens of trillions of microbes that live in the gut.

​​Jianmin Cui, PhD, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a nearly $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular bases for the function of potassium channels vital for the heart, brain, inner ear and other tissues.

Mark Valeri, PhD, widely regarded as one of the most eminent scholars of American religion during the Revolutionary War era, was installed last week as the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics.